Jamie Hince

Jamie: The guitar I play, the Hofner, I’ve got about six of those now, but the first one I bought I didn’t even play it. I just walked in and saw it hanging up on the wall, went back home, got an amplifier, went back, and swapped my amplifier for that guitar and took it home and played it. It’s the greatest guitar in the world.

On minute 16.30 Hince shows his ST-1.

recording engineer Bill Skibbe about the gear used in The Kills' album Blood Pressures: "So a lot of the time, we had this insane pedal board setup where we were using three A/D boxes [like the Divided By 13 Switch Hazel] "

recording engineer Bill Skibbe: He [Hince] has a crazy pedal board set up with two Boss [DD-3] delays and two Electro-Harmonix POGs.

recording engineer Bill Skibbe: “Baby Says” – that modulating guitar sound, and a lot of the tone in that, comes from this old Maestro Rhythm & Sound pedal, which is more of a suitcase than it is a pedal. It comes in a big Samsonite suitcase [laughs]. They''re awesome because they have the original Maestro Fuzztone in them, and then they have two tone stops that going along with that, and they''re unreal sounding. They also have insane modulation that I always think of as like an African Manu Dibango sound—this messed-up, fuzzed, modulated crazy sound. It''s also got an Auto-wah in it, and a bass synthesizer, which we didn''t use because it doesn''t track very well. It really blended well with the Twin. It''s an effect that you can''t get out of a tremelo that''s on an amplifier.

Hince uses two of those, always (as you can see on any picture of pedalboard), as they form his typical guitar sound. That sound is created by having the pedals set to a (perhaps differing) short 'slapback' delay, the feedback turned up, and sometimes using the 'Hold' function.

In a Premier Guitar Rig Rundown video, Jamie Hince shares how he initially laughed at the appearance of the Supro Ozark 1560S Electric Guitar but quickly grew fond of its sound.

At 7:20min Hince talks about that he forgot his Fender Jaguar at home.

Hince uses Divided By 13 amps (as can be seen at 2:50 in this live performance).

When he starts to refer to his amps, he says that he is tired of carrying such vintage and classy amps like AC 30 around.

Jamie Hince used a Hagström Kent with The Kills.

recording engineer Bill Skibbe: We usually use one of the POGs to thicken up the sound, and that feeds three guitar amps—a modified Fender Twin, this amazing Vox AC50, and a ''60s Silvertone 610 that bit the dust right after we''d finished tracking everything

In the photo referenced, Jamie Hince is seen using a Whirlwind Selector A/B Box, highlighting its role in his setup.

recording engineer Bill Skibbe: "The Model 92, I don''t know if Jack Douglas used that on Double Fantasy, but that was around three thousand bucks when it was new, and it was advertised as this “new portable delay line by Lexicon”—for three thousand bucks, in 1977! But they''re great. As you get further out on the delay line, it gets grittier and grittier because it''s running through more chips along the way and slowing down the time, so you get that signal loss and distortion that creeps in. They don''t sound as clean as PCM technology. It''s a lot more of a real honest delay."

Starting at minute 21.00 Hince talks about the Vox Super Twin "Small Box" he has.

In this video Hince shows his 1966 Silver Duke at 7:08min.

At 11:00min Hince says that he used a Tonemaster before and liked it.

At 12:30min Hince is showing his Zodiac amp.

In a performance photo from Getty Images, Jamie Hince of The Kills is seen playing a Höfner Verythin 4575 guitar.

In the video "The Kills - Pull A U (Backstage At CONAN)" by Kudomaldito on YouTube, Jamie Hince is seen with Höfner 175 guitars in both white and black finishes.

In this video Hince is showing his 1950's Magnatone 280 amp.

At 11:10min you can see that a Selmer Head is part of his rig in 2016.

Around minute 12 he says that he also has a Thunderbird besides Selmer's Zodiac amp.

Jamie Hince uses a Dunlop DC-Brick Multi-Power Supply.

Jamie Hince used a Burns Orbit 2 combo guitar amplifier during the early recordings of The Kills, as shown in a photo from the band's gallery on Thekills' official site.

Jamie Hince owns a 1930s Gibson L-00 in black, as shown in a user-uploaded photo on Tumblr.

Jamie Hince has a Höfner 169 as can be seen next to the 176 on this photo (note the white knob that was added to the 176 modell).

On 20.58min Hince shows one of his first amps which is now used by his bandmate Alison Mosshart.

In the fourth photo of a post shared by Alison Mosshart & Jamie Hince on March 7, 2024, Jamie Hince is seen playing a Mellotron M4000D towards the back of the stage. The post, tagged @amosshart and @spookytooof, includes a series of images from the #GodGamesTour, with this particular photo taken at the @930club in Washington, DC.

A photo from The Kills show in 2024, provided by Getty Images, shows guitarist Jamie Hince using a Magnatone Super Fifty-Nine M80 amp.